NYC*BUG Meetings and Events
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2008-07-02 @ 18:30 -
Location: Suspenders Bar
Configuration Management with Cfengine, Steven Kreuzer
[nycbug-2008-07-02.mp3] [meeting_2008-07-02.ppt]
(Audio generously recorded and processed by Nikolai Fetissov)
Steven Kreuzer has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.
Configuration Management with Cfengine, Steven Kreuzer
[nycbug-2008-07-02.mp3] [meeting_2008-07-02.ppt]
(Audio generously recorded and processed by Nikolai Fetissov)
Cfengine is a policy-based configuration management system. Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of computers, from a policy specification.
The cfengine project was started in 1993 as a reaction to the complexity and non-portability of shell scripting for Unix configuration management, and continues today. The aim was to absorb frequently used coding paradigms into a declarative, domain-specific language that would offer self-documenting configuration.
About the speaker:Steven Kreuzer has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.